Guitar pedal suggestions

I heve a muti effects guitar pedal. But i want to improve the sound quality somehowe. Now i'm thinking mabey there is a pedal i can run between my guitar and this muli effects unit that would improve the sound as much as possible. Im not talking about distortion or any type of effect but something to clean it up. If you need more information please ask.

well if you want to get rid of noise or buzz i would suggest a boss ns2 noise suppressor,or an isp decimator pedal,it helps reduce the noise of sloopy playing,is this what you meant,also a noisegate would work,cheers

whatever ones you use the most you could start to look into nice pedals for, which honestly sound better if they are not solely digital and use analog processing.

After you start to use a really nice distortion or overdrive pedal(like the OCD by Fulltone) you will never go back to using a digital multi effects for that particular effect, though they are nice for using chorus, flange, phaser, delay, and some equalization.

I agree with Nater and Case on one point, but its more the matter of need. Multieffect pedals are great in composing (you can try many different sound with many different effects) and they ARE good sounds depending what multieffect you have.

For the gigging... get rid of it. First, cool pedal board with cool set of pedals make you look like a pro :D, second, they sound lot better when did right (disadvantage AND advantage is that) It IS your sound. Dot. With few switches you can vary a bit but... you know what I mean...also... You have to know, what kind of sound you want.

If you decide to get pedals, spend time on asking EMB :D for recommendations, Spend time on local store to test the pedals and epecially pedal combos to exact amp model and guitar you have.

Yup, ask around at the local guitar shop to demo some pedals and sort of give them an idea of what sound you want. I'm sure they will be more than happy to accommodate to your needs(LOCAL guitar shop, not guitar center).

equalizer is good to mold your sound by changing frequencies to your likeing,noise gate is good for buzz,and at everyone else,nullnaught never said he wanted to get rid of his multi fx pedal,he just wanted to clean it up a bit,so for better tone an eq,for to much noise with the pefal a noisegate.

Yes but i appreciate all the advice i can get. I actually was thinking of an eq. I found a boss 7 band for 99.00 and a mxr 10 band for 119.00. Is anyone familiar with either of thes 2 products. And are the more bands it has means its better?

I find it to be much better with being able to take out a more specific band and not affect the others around it too much-- like the low mids at around 250. I pull those out a tad to get rid of the muddiness, and that allows me to make full on barre chords with distortion. Plus I can boost the mids to more exact frequencies...

The human ear can hear a range of sounds from the low frequencies to the high frequencies and everything in between. The more bands on the EQ the more control you have when adjusting specific frequencies withing that range. It's always a balance between money, control and needs.
Phip

I would say that 10 bands is better than 7 at this point. more control and you would be happier later one with that when you start to really get to tweaking your tone. Not complicated really any more than a 7 band, just more precise.

Really???
I always have my mids at 0 (1 on my 100 watt. 0 is non-existant) and I have yet to run into this. Then again I usually don't play with too much drums.
I do lose my lead if I loop a rhythm track sometimes. I usually blame the Multi-FX for that.

The guitar lies in the midrange, so when you scoop that out completely you are in a sense pulling out anything that would make that particular guitar(wood, pickups) different. Scooped mids is fun to play around with but for a practical use it really doesn't go too many places outside the studio.

Dipping out the mids is a different story; I boost my mids post distortion(I use pedals) and then dip them out a little bit for rhythm. Not scooped, but dipped at around 750 hz for that Marshall-y sort of crunch sound.

@ Null: back to your topic,yes,you can get a pedal that will magically make your sound better,even from a multi FX,its called the BBE Sonic Stomp,is a sonic Harmonic Maximizer that corrects your signal,it basically makes it better sounding,their first version was a Rack for studios,but guitars were so cool sounding running over it that BBE ade a pedal version of it,there is also A VST Bundle with the BBE stuff

http://www.bbesound.com/products/stomp-boxes/sonic-stomp.aspx

"for a good lead tone put the midrange all the way up and the highs and lows at50%,for a good rhythm no mds at all high and lows uo all the way,for jazz mids and bass allthe way upand highs 30%"

Im sorry bro,but thats some of the suckiest reccomendations i've ever heard for a tone,tone is a balance between the good sounding stuff and the effective stuff,your suggestions dont fit in any those lines.